LNG facility losing idea

Stephen McIntyre

Langley, BC
Powell River Peak
15-Aug-2007

This liquefied natural gas terminal plus burning facility megaproject, controversial and dangerous by all accounts, is looking for an island home ["Texada target of LNG plan." August 1]. I'd like to see them try foisting this on feisty Salt Spring Island.

Texada residents will hear all about new jobs and win-win, but little about pollution, physical risk and environmental degradation. Why here? Because limited-economy communities offer less political resistance, the perfect dumping grounds for urban garbage and projects like this.

As for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and buying carbon credits while burning all that gas, I have to reject the concept.

Let's say I live in Anytown, where I poop on the street and chuck my garbage in the drinking stream. However, I pay good money to someone else who does not poop in the street and in this way, I achieve poop-neutral status. Hello?

©The Powell River Peak 2007